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Who's "people"? The state? A democratic vote? The individual? The problem with mosquito-borne diseases is that they're non-consensual. People have a right to l
by _zywo 4y ago
Who's "people"? The state? A democratic vote? The individual?
The problem with mosquito-borne diseases is that they're non-consensual. People have a right to live without mosquito-borne disease.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoHuman beings who have lived in a state of nature. When there are medical cures to mosquito-borne diseases available, the patient can choose to take it or not take it. This foisting of treatments on people without their consent creates very dangerous precedents.
- whimsicalism 4y agoThe state of nature is a construct, there is no base "state of nature." These mosquitoes are only here because humans brought them here.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoThere is a big difference between how ecosystems change through human and animal migration and technocratic "solutions" that usher in a whole new level of medical invasiveness.
- idiotsecant 4y agoOh? What difference would that be? If I intend to add or remove a species from somewhere is that somehow worse than if I accidentally add or remove a species from somewhere? In what way?
- chaxor 4y agoHere we see a gaggle of gpt models, endlessly duking it out for the public, such that they may casually dismiss or ignore their arguments. - HN tour guide Attenborough
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